OK ... I’m using “Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Fedora 17 (F17)” and after much wailing and gnashing of teeth I arrived at the Prerequisite Checks. I find that I am missing a korn shell package, pdksh-5.2.14.

This despite having installed the ksh package with yum, per the instructions. When I try to install pdksh-5.2.14 I find that there is “No package pdksh-5.2.14” available. Nor can I find this package in the GUI software updater.

The loopback entry must remain unchanged. The machine-specific entry must include your machine name and the IP address of the machine on your network. That is necessary for your installation. If the IP address changes in future the listener will fail and you will need to edit the hosts file to correct it.

The loopback entry must remain unchanged. The machine-specific entry must include your machine name and the IP address of the machine on your network. That is necessary for your installation. If the IP address changes in future the listener will fail and you will need to edit the hosts file to correct it.

Host-only networking is a feature of the virtualization software (VirtualBox, VMware etc.). You can set your virtual network to be host-only, so it has nothing to do with the network of the laptop. It will use a different subnet and it won't matter if your laptop is connected to a network or not.

Host-only networking is a feature of the virtualization software (VirtualBox, VMware etc.). You can set your virtual network to be host-only, so it has nothing to do with the network of the laptop. It will use a different subnet and it won't matter if your laptop is connected to a network or not.

The down side is your VM will not be able to access the internet.

Cheers

Tim...

OK well the solution to this turned out to be much simpler. I created a new first line to the hosts file with the value 127.0.1.1 followed by my fqdn and then the hostname. There is no need to use a virtual server. It works on my Fedora lap top with a dynamic IP.

"You know what your host name is. You then put the currently set IP address into the entry. You get this using "ifconfig"."

It was only after you still said there were issues that I suggested using a bridged connection...

Cheers

Tim...

Noo .. the article said to use the machine IP and ipconfig gives me the IP as given by DHCP. If I use that IP the host file will be incorrect the next time I power on the machine. I was looking for a solution that did not assume the machine IP was static.